Fairytale Skies

Fairytale Skies

What wonders the fairies had done to sky? Painting the bright blue floating sea with streaks of molten orange and smothering it with a sweet lavender 

What wonders the fairies had done to the mountains? Sprinkling their jagged peaks with the sweetest of icing sugar. Adorning their surroundings with the “bah’s” of mountain goats.

What wonders the fairies had done to the earth? Lifting from its brown soil the brightest of yellow flowers. Pulling from its depths the greenest of grazing grasses

 

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Fall Sunrise

Fall Sunrise.Sometimes we end up capturing shots that were never planned and this was one of them. After my milkyway shot i drove to the hotel i booked which was 50mi away. On reaching the hotel, to my shock the registration office was closed and no…

Fall Sunrise.

Sometimes we end up capturing shots that were never planned and this was one of them. After my milkyway shot i drove to the hotel i booked which was 50mi away. On reaching the hotel, to my shock the registration office was closed and no one was answering the phone. I was tiered, sleepy and frustrated on the hotel guys. I left the hotel and drove back on the route i came and stopped at a place and tried to get some sleep in my SUV. It was clod and i was not able to sleep well. I was in two minds, if i should drive to the next point i had in mind which not a sunrise shot or drive back to the place i shot my milkyway and do a sunrise over there. I decided to drive to the milkyway spot, so drove another 50Mi. It was freezing cold as the place was in a mountain area so i switched on the heat in my car and was able to get the much needed sleep. I was not sure what kind of shots i would get at a sunrise over here, woke up just before sunrise and walked to this spot. When i saw the light i knew this would be the shot i would be happy.

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Screw Auger Falls

I have been planning on for this shot for a year now, had to wait for the fall colors to peak and also have a night with no moon. Its around 8Hrs drive from my home. To get this shot i need to place my tripod on a rock with fall off on 3 sides (10-15ft) and just enough space for me to stand. I have setup my camera after sunset and waited for the moon to go down around 8:29PM. Once the moon was set i took multiple exposures from 3Min to 20Min for the foreground (Need to get better on my focus stacking) and waited for the milky way to align which would happen around 10:45PM. So spent an hour waiting for the MW to align, just when the time was right around 9:45pm the clouds rolled in and the sky was completely covered with clouds. Waited for 30Min and as there were no signs of any cloud clearing i moved my camera and took some other shots. With 8 hours of driving and couple of hours of standing at this place i was exhausted and ready to go. As i was packing my bag, saw some clearing in the sky and in 20min the sky cleared up and the MW was perfectly aligned in the position i wanted. I had to run back to the location and setup my camera again, while i tried my best to have the same composition i had for my foreground shots i could not get it 100% correct. I did my MW shots i wanted and called it a night. After coming back i was excited to process the shot i was waiting for a year and when i tried to align my sky with foreground my worst fears started to come true. The sky was not aligning to the foreground and the trees which had sky in their background started to look fake. I spent more than 24Hrs and reworked on the images 7 times from the scratch. This is the final output i was satisfied with, let me know what you feel about this picture.
Lessons learnt: Be fresh for the night to have energy and ability to think properly.